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if i am not mistaken PhysX is used by cpu on ati and by graphic on nvidia, when playing gears of war i had to download it from the net.
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PhysX is an nVidia only thing. It's a hardware accelerated feature.
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Are you saying that AGEIA PhysX v7.11.13 is not PhysX? i know it is not running on the graphic card.
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05-26-2009, 07:09 PM
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nVidia bought PhysX/Ageia a while back, and it's integrated into their 8800 series and later cards. PhysX 7 is pretty outdated now, it's up to 9.09.0408. You could, and I think still can buy a separate PhysX card from like Ageiea and ASUS, but they are like $200 I think and eat up a PCI slot.
So, it's not actually nVidia only, but you aren't getting anything out of it with an ATI card unless you have a separate PhysX card.
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but it still possible that other company make a program like physx and be assimilated by Ati, is not wrong to make a program that makes the same thing as physx with diferent code?
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(05-26-2009, 07:23 PM)seinfeldx Wrote: but it still possible that other company make a program like physx and be assimilated by Ati, is not wrong to make a program that makes the same thing as physx with diferent code?
No, because you'll run into a driver conflict.
ATI are working on there own physics, or it's rumoured. I forget.
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ATI is supposedly working with the Havok people to get some special Havok perks. I sure hope that isn't the case because Havok is pretty popular.
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(05-26-2009, 10:10 PM)KrazyTrumpeter05 Wrote: ATI is supposedly working with the Havok people to get some special Havok perks. I sure hope that isn't the case because Havok is pretty popular.
The Havok engine is like... the most common physics engine around lol.
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Yeah, but I don't want to miss out on some new graphics features because I don't have an ATI card. I could care less about PhysX, honestly. I never really notice it doing anything.